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  • Mountaintop musings

    Mountaintop musings
    Feb 15 2026
    Matthew 17:1-9 Back when I was younger, I used to run off to the mountains every time I got the chance. I grew up in the Peachtree Hills neighborhood of Atlanta, just down the road from Buckhead (the center of the Universe), in a smallish two-bedroom apartment, with my mother, younger brother and a variety […]
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    15 min
  • Blessed as much as we can stand

    Blessed as much as we can stand
    Feb 1 2026
    Matthew 5:1-12 Some of y’all may have read a book written by Robert Fulghum nearly thirty-seven years ago titled: All I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten. The book contains fifty short essays, all hinging on the central thesis or Credo that, “Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand […]
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    15 min
  • Chosen!

    Chosen!
    Jan 18 2026
    John 1:29-42 I was not part of the “in crowd” during my elementary school years. My family was relatively new to the neighborhood and I was a bit of a daydreamer. This was in the days before “attention deficit” had been classified as a “disorder,” and pharmaceutical companies had developed a magic pill aimed at […]
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    11 min
  • Promises to keep

    Promises to keep
    Jan 11 2026
    Matthew 3:13-17 We’ve been hearing quite a lot about John the Baptist lately, haven’t we? Think of it: in the last five weeks, beginning with the second Sunday in Advent, we’ve read about John the messenger… “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight!’” About the […]
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    10 min
  • What is your gift?

    What is your gift?
    Jan 4 2026
    Matthew 2:1-23 When I was a child, I remember the Christmas story being very simple and straightforward: God sent the baby Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary, to save the world. Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger because there was no room at the […]
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    13 min
  • Joseph’s Boy

    Joseph’s Boy
    Dec 21 2025
    Matthew 1:18-25 Some of the “long-marchers” in the pews today may remember that I took a trip to Tanzania, in East Africa in the summer of 2014. Most of my time there was spent in the little village of Mtumba, in the central plains outside of the capital, Dodoma, as the guest of the local […]
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    13 min
  • I can only imagine

    I can only imagine
    Dec 14 2025
    Matthew 11:2-11 “Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he” (v. 11:11). What does that mean? Not only was John the Baptist God’s prophet, he was also Jesus’ relative—perhaps even his first cousin, […]
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    13 min
  • Passing through the boundary waters

    Passing through the boundary waters
    Dec 7 2025
    Matthew 3:1-12 “You sons of snakes!” …one of my favorite lines in preaching. You just gotta love John the Baptist. Author and theologian Walter Wangerin describes the Baptizer as: “no respecter of persons. He lived dependent on no one’s welcome or anyone’s wealth . . . And he offered Jews a ritual washing . . . a baptism […]
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    11 min